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Evolution of the AFS logo.


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This logo first appeared in modern costing's August 1964 issue and was used until June June: see month.  1970. It never appeared in the AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System.

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 Transactions.

The first "official" logo of the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of  Foundrymen's Association appeared in AFA AFA

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 Transactions in 1915. The letters on the logo changed to AFSin 1948 with the name change to the American Foundrymen's Society. This logo was used in the Transactions until 1970 and in modern casting until 1964.

Each of the new logos for AFS, Cast Metals Institute and modem casting have been designed using a triangle. The triangle is symbolic of the AFS mission: Management and Technology built on Education.

First appearing in the June 1970 issue of modem casting and then in

Transactions in 1973, this logo is probably best known to current AFS members. It endured until December 1990.

The new AFS logo was developed in late 1990 and was introduced in January 1991, coinciding co·in·cide  
intr.v. co·in·cid·ed, co·in·cid·ing, co·in·cides
1. To occupy the same relative position or the same area in space.

2. To happen at the same time or during the same period.

3.
 with the merger of the American Found men's Society and the American Cast Metals Association.
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Title Annotation:American Foundrymen's Society
Publication:Modern Casting
Article Type:illustration
Date:Sep 1, 1991
Words:168
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